C# is just Java…only a little worse

**DimPrawn** · 7 May 2003, 11:48

That article was written by a moron.

In time you will be saying "Is C# better than Java?"

and the young IT grads will say "What's Java?".

You have been warned!

Forget the C#/Java angle.

Look at what the CLR/Framework offers vs J2EE.

Look at the ease, performance, and market take up of the MS offering.

Look at the enormous rates I'm being paid to do .NET :lol

**PerlOfWisdom** · 7 May 2003, 14:56

Look at the stability, scalability and reliability of the Microsoft platform.

**reynolds** · 7 May 2003, 17:55

re:

"Look at the stability, scalability and reliability of the Microsoft platform."

:rollin

You can't look at something that doesn't exist..

**reynolds** · 7 May 2003, 19:06

re

all the young IT grads are learning Java as the main language. Java's market share will increase because of its portability and cost saving

**DimPrawn** · 8 May 2003, 08:51

Re: re

Stick with Linux and Java and MySql and PHP and all that crap then.

I'll stick with what earns me a six figure salary.

**eek** · 8 May 2003, 09:17

Re: re

I was not going to comment on this but

Java's market share will increase because of its portability and cost saving

I don't think Java's ever been cheap and as for portability (the adage write once, test everywhere springs to mind).

Moving from platform to platform and application server to application server is seriously time consuming (even with unit testing confirming that the basic stuff works). .Net may not be as cheap as Linux but at least its write once, test once (twice if you're being really clever and porting to mono).

**PerlOfWisdom** · 8 May 2003, 10:12

Re: re

".Net may not be as cheap as Linux but at least its write once, test once"

So is Java if you only run it on one platform. The thing is, you can choose the platform.

**DimPrawn** · 8 May 2003, 13:53

Java sucks - according to Sun!

www.advogato.org/article/624.html

Sorry, but Java is dead in the water.

**reynolds** · 8 May 2003, 16:02

Java sucks - according to Sun!

"www.advogato.org/article/624.html
Sorry, but Java is dead in the water. "

Is that from a Sun employee? Java certainly isn't high performance, but it was never meant to be. Its meant to be portable & platform neutral - it loses a lot of speed because of this - because it doesn't borrow and rely on clunky OS objects.

I think a lot of business's will say "well thats fast enough for us, at that price"

C# is just Java…only a little worse